suavities

Example Sentences

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Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was an educated, cultivated man, accustomed to the luxuries and full of the suavities of civilized life.

From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry

Over Charity's shoulder and through the spray of the goura on her hat he saw Kedzie sharp and stark, her suavities of line and the milk-smooth fabric of her envelope.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

She yearned to give him what he had never had,—pleasure, joy, the soft suavities of life, what she had had always.

From Together by Herrick, Robert

I hoped, however, like the foolish inexperienced old bachelor I am, that her feminine asperity would be tempered by the suavities of married life.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James